Usually means: Requests information or action verbally.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word asks:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. asks: Merriam-Webster
  2. asks: Collins English Dictionary
  3. asks: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ask's, Asks, ask's, asks: Wordnik
  5. asks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. asks: Wiktionary
  7. asks: Dictionary.com
  8. asks: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. asks: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. asks: Legal dictionary
  2. asks: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asks: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asks: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asks: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Asks: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ask as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ASK)

verb:  To request or petition.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
verb:  (transitive or ditransitive) To request or enquire of (a person).
verb:  (transitive usually with 'for' or intransitive) To request (an item or service); see also ask for.
verb:  (transitive) To request (someone to do something).
verb:  To request permission (to do something).
verb:  To put forward (a question) to be answered.
verb:  To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
verb:  To invite.
verb:  To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
verb:  (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
noun:  An act or instance of asking.
noun:  Something asked or asked for.
noun:  An asking price.
noun:  (Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
noun:  (UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
noun:  (UK dialectal) A lizard.
noun:  (Norse mythology) The first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.
noun:  A surname from Swedish.
noun:  Initialism of amplitude shift keying.
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